Gowanbrae
Gowanbrae is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Merri-bek local government area.
Gowanbrae is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Merri-bek local government area. Gowanbrae recorded a population of 2,971 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Gowanbrae
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Penola Catholic College
Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Patron of the college is Saint Mary MacKillop.
2.3 km · co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02St James Old Cathedral
St James Old Cathedral, an Anglican church, is the oldest church in Melbourne, Australia, albeit not on its original site. It is one of the relatively few buildings in the central city which predate the Victorian gold rush of 1851.
3.5 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gowanbrae
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 6 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 53 km
- Stations
- Essendon Airport, 2.9 km · Jacana, 1.7 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Gowanbrae18 km · quickest by road, 50 min · A$3–4
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Gowanbrae612 km · quickest by air, 4h 5m · A$160–250
- Adelaide → Gowanbrae643 km · quickest by air, 4h 22m · A$180–270
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gowanbrae
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gowanbrae. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.
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Next door to Gowanbrae
Gowanbrae is 14 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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